The Victorian Government’s Public Land Give-Away 29/11/2024
The Australian Environment Foundation (AEF) is a leading environmental watchdog in monitoring events surrounding Australia’s land, waterways and atmosphere.
In line with its goals the AEF has today released a report entitled ‘The Victorian Government’s Public Land Give-Away’ outlining measures that may ultimately lead to the end of public land in Victoria.
The report’s author, Dr David Barton, as well as being a researcher and lobbyist, has decades of experience in forest management and bushfire recovery, his PhD being on the recovery of Marysville after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.
Dr Barton asserts that public Crown land, freely open to all citizens, has been a feature of the Australian landscape since the earliest days of British settlement, especially in Victoria.
“All that is about to change” says Dr Barton, “Over the last five years the Victorian government has been handing over National Parks to Aboriginal organisations in what is known as ‘Aboriginal Title’. These organisations are essentially private corporations run for the benefit of their Aboriginal members, not the public.”
Dr Barton explained “The land becomes freehold title, with the new owners having considerable but as yet undefined scope to change its usage. At the very least access to the forests may become subject to the new owners’ permission,”
“The Victorian Environment Assessment Council, along with the newly created ‘Eminent Panel for Community Engagement and Great Outdoors Taskforce’ have an $11 million budget to carry out investigations over the entire Eastern half of Victoria to see where new parks and reserves can be created, and placed under Aboriginal management and/or ownership” concludes Dr Barton.
AEF Chairman, Dr Peter Ridd observed “Australians know about the closure of Ayers Rock/Uluru, Mt Warning, Mt Arapiles, and many other scenic locations, based upon claims of Aboriginal culture, but many people are not aware of the scale of the change in land tenure.”
“As explained in Dr Barton’s report, the Commonwealth’s new Nature Positive Plan proposes to lock up even more land as a part of the new “30 x 30” program which is to convert 30% of Australia’s landmass and waterways into ‘conservation’ by 2030,” said Dr Ridd.
Read the full report The Victorian Government’s Public Land Give-Away can be found here https://www.australianenvironment.org/reports to find out what’s really going on with public land use and land ownership in Australia.
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